Calendar-head



J. B. WEBER.

CALENDAR HEAD.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. a. 1920.

Patented July 27, 1920.

INVENTOR ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN B. WEBER, OF UNION HILL, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR THE OSBORNE COMPANY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY:

CALENDAR-HEAD.

Application filed March 3, 1920. Serial no. 363,030.

T 0 all whomit may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN B. WEBER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Union Hill, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Calendar- Heads, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the heads or upper rims of wall calendars'by means of which the sheet or sheets composing the calendar are secured together or held in place and to which the means for suspending the calendar are usually attached.

Such heads have heretofore been made of a strip of tin folded over with the sheet or sheets of thecalendar.

These tin heads are easily bent and moreover by reason of their crude appearance are not adapted for use with the better class of ornamental calendars, known as calendars de l'uxe, which usually consist of a back of heavy paper to which a picture is adhesively secured and a mat surrounding the picture, the mat and back being held together by a ribbon by means of which the calendar is suspended.

The object of my improvements is to pro vide, a more economical construction of such calendars de luXe while preserving their ornamental appearance and also to provide a more sight-1y and durable and eificient calendar head. To this end I provide the strip of tin such as calendar heads have heretofore been made of with a covering of paper, which is in the first instance folded so as to cover the strip, which thus forms the core of the calendar head, and is then bent or rimped with the core to form the head. The paper covering of the core may be of any color and quality, thus harmonizing with the color and quality of the paper used in the calendar. Besides this the calendar head has greater rigidity than when composed simply of a bent or folded piece of tin and the calendar sheets are more firmly held by reason of the greater friction of the paper surface.

In applying such a head in the formation of a calendar de luxe, instead of adhesively securing a picture to the calendar Jack and then binding this to a mat with ribbon, the back, picture and mat are loosely assembled and then inserted and held in the calendar head in the usual nianneigthe paper covering of the head being made to harmonize with the other parts of the calendar. I

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings Figure l of which shows a calendar head in the first stage of construction with the paper covering folded around the metal core; Fig. 2 shows the calendar head folded or bent over ready to receive the sheet or sheets forming the calendar; Fig. 3' shows the calendar. head in its completed form with the parts forming a calendar de luXe held therein, Fig. 4 shows a calendar head with its paper covering extended to form a calendar back, and Fig. 5 is asectional 1yiew showing a modified form of construcion.

Referring to the drawings A, indicates a strip of thin pliable metal, as tin, which constitutes the core of the calendar head around which is wrapped, or folded a strip of paper, B, forming a covering therefor.

In forming the calendar head the core, A, with the covering, B, is first folded or bent over along one edge so as to form a ll 0, as shown in Fig. 2. One edge of the sheet or sheets forming the calendar, as D. E, Fig. 4, is then'inserted under the lip, C, and this is again folded so as to assume the shape shown in Figs. 3 and 4. Thus the calendar sheets are folded in with the head and held firmly therein.

In applying the invention to a calendar de luxe, comprising, a back, F, a picture, G, and a mat, H, surrounding the picture, the picture is not adhesively secured to the back, as has heretofore been the case, but is assembled loosely therewith together with the mat, and the three are then secured in the calendar head in the same manner as other calendar sheets, as shown in Fig. 3. Thus a more economical form of construction is provided and at the same time the warping to which such calendars have been subject heretofore is avoided. This use of a calendar head with such calendars is made possible by the paper covering of the head which can be made to harmonize in color and texture with the visible parts of the calendar and at the same timethe relatively Patented July 27,1920.

of the calendarhead is extended so as to form a backrfor the calendar.

Instead of folding the calendar head with a double told as shown in Figs. 14E I may fold the head onlyonce as shown in Fig. 5.

The holding of the calendar sheets in the head with such a single told is made possible, when the head is pressed securely down upon the sheets, by the friction of the paper cover ng, 13, which grips the sheets. In or? der, however, to insure. the retention of the calendar sheets in the head I may indent the metal of the head from the back so as to press upon the sheets as shown at A.

This construction has the advantage of,

providing a. thinner head, which presents an improved appearance and occupies less space when the calenders are packed in uantitv for shi )ment than where a double 7 V i 1 a i told in the head is employed.

Besides the greatly improved appearance 'imparted to a calendar by the use of my invention it also presents the advantages of increased stiffness in the head thus'enabling the use offa lighter strip of metal and the ters Patent is 2- A calendar head comprising a core of n etaland a covering of paper surroundingthe core and folded over with the core to form the'calendar head. A calendar head comprising a core of -fle:;ible metal, and a covering of paper surrounding the core, the core and covering being folded over together'to hold the cal endar sheets. I v

3. A calendar consisting'of a back, a picture and a mat surrounding the picture, the

same being loosely assembled and held in a head consisting of a metal core and a cover ing of paper surrounding the core and folded over with thecore'to form the calendar head. i

4. A calendar head consisting of a strip of metal provided with a covering of paper and bent over so as to form a groove to receive the calendar and having the metal indented to engage the calendar.

In testimony whereof I have il-lllXQCl my signature this first day of March, 1920;

I JOHN B. \VEBEB. 

